Impact of immigration greatly understated in housing projections | Migration Watch UK
‘Building more homes is not a panacea and the impact of such a housing programme on the environment could be unsustainable.’ House of Commons Committee, ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the regions, April 2003 Estimates of the number of new homes required in England over the next 20 years have been seriously underestimated because […]
The impact of immigration on England’s housing
Summary1. Every few years the Government produces projections of the number of households in England which help to inform planning policies. The last projections were produced in 2000 based on 1996 population projection data. The projections indicated an increase in households of just over 3.8 million in the period 1996-2021. 2. The household projections, and […]
Immigration rise prompts NHS cost fears… | Migration Watch UK
A report out today warns of the potential impact on the NHS of the cost of treating the rising numbers of patients with infectious diseases resulting from the very great increase in asylum and immigration in recent years. Research by think-tank Migrationwatch indicates that the number of cases could run into tens of thousands and […]
Health Consequences of Current Immigration Policy
Summary1 The Government has commissioned an urgent review of the issues surrounding immigration and health screening. This paper underlines the likely scale of certain infectious diseases resulting from the flow of migrants into the UK, some of them from countries of high prevalence. The number of cases could run into tens of thousands and the […]
Immigration estimates increased by 37% | Migration Watch UK
The Office for National Statistics has released new estimates for international migration which show an increase in migration into the UK for 2001 to 171,800. This is an increase of 37 % over the previous estimate of 125,000. For 1997 the new estimate is 46,800. The revised estimates give net foreign non EU inward migration […]
MWUK examines government asylum claims | Migration Watch UK
Migrationwatch UK has cast doubt on whether the government has yet ‘turned the corner’ on asylum applications with the release of figures that show the recent downturn was due to special factors. The asylum statistics issued by the Home Office on 22 May showed an unexpectedly large drop of 7,385 in the first quarter of […]
Asylum Seekers – A Small Part of the Story’… | Migration Watch UK
Claims about the ‘success’ of the Government’s efforts to reduce the numbers of asylum seekers reveal a fundamental inconsistency at the heart of their overall immigration policy says think-tank Migrationwatch. Its latest paper, issued today, demonstrates that asylum seeker numbers are, in fact, a fairly small part of the overall immigration issue. ‘Government policy is […]
Asylum Seekers – The true impact on our Population… | Migration Watch UK
The latest population projections issued by the Office for National Statistics (Population Trends No 111) seriously underestimates the potential impact of asylum seekers on our society. The migration assumptions include only asylum seekers “allowed to remain” which is taken as 30,000 (less than the five-year average of about 40,000). A more realistic approach would be […]
Response from Migrationwatch to the report on asylum removals by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee… | Migration Watch UK
We welcome the call for more accurate and meaningful statistics, this is something we have sought for some time. We entirely agree that effective removals is the key to a credible system – but are very concerned that the Committee has not made any significant proposals to achieve this given that they themselves recognise the […]
UK is ‘Top European Destination’ for asylum Seekers… | Migration Watch UK
The UK has been confirmed as the Number One destination for asylum seekers coming to Europe. A study of UNHCR statistics reveals that in the 10 years to 2002, the proportion of applicants for asylum to Europe who came to the UK has soared from 5% to 27% – easily outstripping the proportions going to […]